NO LIMITS by John C. Maxwell

I thought to share the notes that keep inspiring me and help me improve my capacity in certain areas.

Chapter 7: Creative Capacity

In other words, creative capacity is our ability to see options and find answers to problems. Most importantly it is a mindset that we need to cultivate on us before that actions get initiated. In mostly, a creative mindset is confident, opinionated, and certain about everything. Because they truly believed in what they are doing is the right thing. It is all about their ability to connect the pieces of knowledge with experiences.

Few tips to keep your creativity growing.

1. Think broadly and search for many possible options before shortlisting the best possible option.
2. Do not cap your expectations. Because everything and everyone can get better
3. Always ask “ How can I make my team better”
4. Looking for the right connections. Having the right people at the table improve your brainstorming process
5. Be comfortable with half baked ideas ( “ Sooner I can get other perspectives on my thinking, the closer I come to finding my answer”) Exposure + Expression = Expansion of creativity
6. Let go of what worked last year and continuously create to be successful
7. Solitude is the other side of creativity. People deserve a leader who emerges out of solitude with solutions.

“People often remarks to me that it’s great how Virgin thinks out of the box. They are genuinely surprised when I tell them, ‘Actually, we don’t! We just never let the box get built in the first place.”
— Richard Branson

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Chapter 8: Production capacity

Production capacity is your ability to accomplish results. Everyone likes to have an upward spiral towards the direction of everything that they want to achieve. But what stops us is downhill habits. We are the ones who created our own lid on our capacity.

So first we need to make sure are we living at our full capacity. “If you are not growing you are not living at your full capacity. If you are not expressing your full capacity, it registered in your sprit as stuck and it shrinks”

So, how we make sure we are growing? You must work on improving your productivity that increases the capacity to achieve goals that makes you grow.

Here are a few steps to improve your production capacity

1. Visualize the perfect outcome. Begins with an ended mind
2. Start working on what you know without hanging on to what you don’t know.
3. Fail Fast, Fail First and Fail Often
4. Stay focused more than others. Initiates many tries on one thing rather one tries on many things.
5. Take an inventory of your skills and resources
6. Stop doing what you are not great at doing
7. Build a team, Connect with them and add value
8. Continuously evaluate how you could work better